Soldiers Delight "Tiny Graduates"

Operation Tomodachi, the US Armed Forces assistance program to Japan.  It is touching to see the relationship grow beyond that of simply US troops helping Japanese earthquake and tsunami victims. Some US soldiers were helping with the removal of debris when children in a nearby kindergarten came outside for their little "graduation" ceremony.  Upon seeing this, the soldiers quickly finished their work, joined the little children, and delighted them by forming a “human tunnel” through which the tiny little “graduates” could run.  It is a sad world, but there definitely is hope. 

(Original Japanese Text)

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オペレーション友達。米軍の支援作戦。そこで米軍と被災者との立場を越えた交流に感動。瓦礫の撤去時に、たまたま幼稚園の卒園式に米軍が遭遇。そこで、米軍は作業を早く済ませ、卒園する園児達に人間のトンネルを作り上げ、園児達を祝福した。悲しい世の中だけど、捨てたもんじゃない。